Ryan's Blog

All-Stars beat All-Stars?  How about saying American League vs National League? :)

[DISCLAMER: This post is a rant.  I am sorry if this comes off in a frustrated tone, but guess what, I’m fustrated!] I’m going to start off by wishing that today durring the hours of 8am to 11am, I have packet loss. I’m extremely dissatisfied with...

A lot of people have been telling me things like, “Of course Windows 7 Beta 1 doesn’t work with XP drivers.”  As if there’s no shot that it’s even supposed to work.  Well, it works in Vista and it’s a key feature.  Microsoft rearchitected...

Brandon Paddock has posted an awesome “cheat sheet” of hot keys to use in Windows 7. General Win+Up Maximize Win+Down Restore / Minimize Win+Left Snap to left Win+Right Snap to right Win+Shift+Left Jump to left monitor Win+Shift+Right Jump to right monitor...

I just got Windows 7 Beta 1 installed on my main desktop, and I’m having great first impressions.  As I was copying my music, videos, and podcasts from a backup hard drive, I noticed the transfer was going at over 60MB/s ! I’m using a fairly common...

I've always had Windows Powershell installed on my system, but never needed to really dive deep into it. Today, I saw a question on a forum, asking how to get a list of Windows Services into a printable format. That's when it hit me, Powershell...

I might be a little late to the game, but I have Skype fever. Recently, I purchased SkypeIn and SkypeOut. I love how Skype picks up my Outlook contacts and lets me dial them straight from my PC. I also love that Skype has browser plug-ins that allow me...

There are many firewall choices for Windows x64 users, so I've decided to take a look at some of the most popular products that are compatible with Windows Vista x64. The first firewall I will look at is the one included in AVG Internet Security 8...